Religion, Family, and Community in Victorian Canada

Explores Victorian domestic religion through the daily and often turbulent lives of three generations of a prominent Protestant middle class

While we know a great deal about the role religion played in institutions in Victorian Canada, its place in home and family life has remained relatively unexplored. Drawing on the material culture, this title depicts religion as 'lived experience' in a portrait of an emblematic Protestant middle-class family in Quebec's Eastern Townships.An intimate portrait of "lived religion" as experienced by a middle-class family over three generations.